Asdcarl.112
net.news
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!rusty
Mon Dec  7 21:50:13 1981
Re: Bnews conversion
The shell script I just sent needs a * after the group id re:

UID=`grep "^$LOGNAME:" /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/\(.*\):\(.*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\(.*\):\(.*\):\(.*\)/\3/'`
SUBS=`grep "^$UID" /usr/spool/news/.uindex | sed -e 's/.*://' | tr "," "\040"`
echo "options -n $SUBS" > $HOME/.newsrc
echo '$HOME/.newsrc' created

This shell script claims that it will make a .newsrc for everyone in
/etc/passwd:

for user in `sed -e 's/\(.*\):\(.*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\(.*\):\(.*\):\(.*\)/\1/' < /etc/passwd`
do
	uid=`grep "^$user:" /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/\(.*\):\(.*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\(.*\):\(.*\):\(.*\)/\3/'`
	home=`grep "^$user:" /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/\(.*\):\(.*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\([0-9][0-9]*\):\(.*\):\(.*\):\(.*\)/\6/'`
	subs=`grep "^$uid" /usr/spool/news/.uindex | sed -e 's/.*://' | tr "," "\040"`
	if test $subs -eq -1
	then
		echo subs is -1 for $user
		continue
	fi
	if test -r $home/.newsrc
	then
		echo $user already has a .newsrc file
		continue
	fi
	echo "options -n $subs" > $home/.newsrc
	echo "$home/.newsrc" created
done

Again, I apologise for the re's being so bushy.